The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1887-12-17

let our domestic peace be imperllled by
such an clement as this. And IL
can't consent to receive your mother
here, Harry"
Mr.. Garland whistled low and long
s'The deuce you can't!' said he.
''You wont ask 1t, will you dear2"
coaxed the young wife, in her sweetest
accents.
eff you only knew my mother So
"But don't know her, /" pleaded So
phi, land don't want to know her"
I'm sure you would like her, Sophie;
and l am positively certain you could
not help loving her."
LAS if teere ever could be any relation
ship nearer than armed neutrality
between mother and daughter-in !"
satirically observed Mrs. Garland. mo,
Harry, it is too dangerous an experiment
to try. You will let me have my own way
in this matter, will you not?" she added,
caressingly. at is the first favor have
asked of you"
''Of course you are the mistress here,
said Garland, feigning an Indifference
that he did not feel. Il do not intend
to oppose your wishes in any respect"
And Sophie stood on tip-toc to kiss
him, by way of reward
After this discussion it is hardly
necessary to say that Mrs Henry Gar
land was not little surprised, two or
three days subsequently, by the arrival
of cab at the gate loaded with trunks
and the appearance of q juvenilelooking
elderly lady, very much powdered and
frizzed, with an eighteen year-old bon
net and parasol which schoolgirl
might have envied. Sophie started from
the cosey nest in the hammock where
she was reading Dante.
Mammal" she exclaimed.
eyes, darling, it's me-" said Mrs.
Percy, her mother. II was on my way
to Brighton, so I thought would sur
prise you and dear Harold.
And she gave Sophie a succession of
kisses, which were very strongly favored
with rosc-powder, and bcckoned the
cab-man to bring in the trunks.
-Four" said She ''And bonnet
box, and an umbrela-strap, and two
travelling bags. believe that Is all.
My daring Sophie! And the doctor
says country air is the very thing l need
to set me up"
Mrs Peregrine Percy was one Of those
old-young ladies who remind one forci-
bly, Of an antique piece of furniture
vanished up to look like new. Sophie
Garland had never been in sympathy
with her fashionable mother. She had
married decidedly in opposition to that
lady's wishes, and was, to tell the truth,
not especially pleased at her appearance
or the scene at this particular moment.
''But what am to do" she said to
herself 81 certainly can't turn her
out of doors. though I'm sure | don't
know what Harry will say after all
those disagleeable things l said about
his mother
But Harry Garland was too much Of q
a gentleman not to behave courteously
under any circumstance He welcomed
Mrs. Percy with genuine hospitality,
and did not even notice Sophie's APP
/ pealing glances when the old lady Incl
dentally let fall the information that,
since she liked the situation of Clover
/ dale Cottage so well, she should perhaps
remain there all the summer, "just to
keep Sophie company YOU know"
1T IS so good Of Harry not to fling
back my own silly words into my face"
she thought with a thrill Of gratitude.
But at the end Of a week Mrs. Pere-
/ CRIME Percy sicllened.
q hope its not going to be anything
! serious" said she. Sickness does age
a person so. I never had any wrinkles,
You know. dear, before that last attack
of neuralgia
. But when it trauspred that Mrs
. Percy's ailmelt was severe and con
tagious form o. disease, there was a
/ general commorioa ut Cloverdale Cot
/ tage. The servants gave warning, the
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